Comorbid Profile Rather than Age Determines Hip Fracture Mortality in a Nonagenarian Population

BACKGROUND: In light of poor outcomes with nonoperative management of hip fractures, orthopedic surgeons are faced with difficult decisions about which patients are too ill or too old for surgical treatment. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES: This study sought to investigate if patients over 90 years had different...

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Autores principales: Graver, Adam, Merwin, Sara, Collins, Lewis, Kohn, Nina, Goldman, Ariel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2015
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Original Article/CME
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4773692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26981057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11420-015-9435-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4773692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26981057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11420-015-9435-y

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